Challenges in Sustainability

Carrie Lee is a Staff Scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute – U.S. Center at SEI’s Seattle, WA office. Her research is focused on forest and agricultural climate mitigation strategies, bio-energy production and carbon offset protocols. She holds a M.S. degree in Forest Resources and Interdisciplinary Policy from the University of Washington, College of Forest Resources and a B.A. in biology from Carleton College.

Chelsea is a Staff Scientist at SEI's Seattle office, focusing on developing tools to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction strategies and policies from global to city scales, conducting long-term scenario modeling, and analyzing offset methodologies. Chelsea has a bachelor's degree in atmospheric science from the University of California – Berkeley, and a master's degree in global change science and policy from Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Michael Lazarus is a Senior Scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.  He has more than 20 years of experience on climate mitigation analysis, and on carbon markets and offsets.  He has been on the Methodology Panel of the Clean Development Mechanism, and is currently an advisor to the Western Climate Initiative. He holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and is Adjunct Faculty at the Evans School of Public Administration at University of Washington.

Francis X. Johnson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Centre of SEI. He conducts interdisciplinary energy/climate analyses, capacity-building and research, focusing especially on biomass energy in developing countries and including techno-economic feasibility, environmental impacts, socio-technical innovation, international market development.and the policy linkages across different scales and end-use sectors.  He has over twenty years of experience in economic and environmental analysis of biofuels, bioenergy strategies, climate mitigation, and energy efficiency. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Operations Research from the George Washington University and a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is now completing his PhD in cooperation with the Energy and Climate Studies Division at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.